Contract negotiations are ongoing between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Last month, 500 UAW members at the Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky, held rallies in preparation for a potential strike.

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/586752

In past negotiation cycles, the UAW has chosen one of the Big Three legacy automakers (Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis) as a strike target, picking the company the union believed would agree to the best deal in order to set a pattern for the remaining two.

This time, the UAW has broken from this practice — UAW president Shawn Fain has said all three companies are targets, leaving the companies guessing.

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good. We need more direct action, given how everything workers have had to deal with has gotten consistently worse on average since the Reagan administration started deregulating everything.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      true, but to a degree we need to keep informing people of what is possible

      since they don’t pay attention nor have the time to

      I speak to people randomly when out and about and they seem to have given up on change

      I do try to change my way of interacting though, to see if I can improve my way of informing and learning from people